ESS courses at Stanford

57 ESS courses in Stanford’s catalog, with ratings and hours per week from real student evaluations.

• ESS 14N: Sustainable Adaptation3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ESS 46N: Exploring the Critical Interface between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough (EARTHSYS 46N)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ESS 60N: Our Icy Oceans3-3 units
• ESS 65N: How to make a tornado (and other flows in the atmosphere and ocean)3-3 units
• ESS 71: Planet Ocean (BIO 71, OCEANS 71)4-4 units
• ESS 102: Scientific Basis of Climate Change (ESS 202)3-3 units
• ESS 103: Rethinking Meat: An Introduction to Alternative Proteins (EARTHSYS 109, EARTHSYS 209, ESS 203, ETHICSOC 107)1-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 2 hrs/wk
• ESS 106: World Food Economy (EARTHSYS 106, EARTHSYS 206, ECON 106, ECON 206, ESS 206, GEP 106, GEP 206)3-5 units
• ESS 111: Biology and Global Change (BIO 117, EARTHSYS 111, EARTHSYS 217)4-4 units
• ESS 112: Human Society and Environmental Change (EARTHSYS 112, EARTHSYS 212, HISTORY 103D)4-4 units
• ESS 114: Regenerative Coffee: Biochar, Climate, and Health, A Human and Planetary Health Action Lab (ESS 314)3-3 units
• ESS 123: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (EARTHSYS 123A, EARTHSYS 223, ESS 223)3-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ESS 136: Modeling Human-Environment Systems (ESS 236, GEP 115, GEP 215)3-3 units
• ESS 141: Remote Sensing of the Oceans (EARTHSYS 141, EARTHSYS 241, ESS 241, GEOPHYS 141)3-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ESS 148: Introduction to Physical Oceanography (CEE 162D, CEE 262D, EARTHSYS 164, OCEANS 162D, OCEANS 262D)3-3 units
• ESS 150: Wildfires in the Anthropocene (EARTHSYS 150)3-3 units
• ESS 151: Biological Oceanography (EARTHSYS 151, EARTHSYS 251, ESS 251)3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ESS 152: Marine Chemistry (EARTHSYS 152, EARTHSYS 252, ESS 252, OCEANS 152, OCEANS 252)3-3 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ESS 155: Science of Soils (EARTHSYS 155)4-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ESS 162: Remote Sensing of Land (EARTHSYS 142, EARTHSYS 242, ESS 262)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ESS 164: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (GIS) (EARTHSYS 144)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ESS 166: Will Technology Save the World?: Environmental Ethics and Techno-Optimism (ESS 266)4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ESS 171: Climate Models and Data (ESS 271)3-3 units
• ESS 202: Scientific Basis of Climate Change (ESS 102)3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ESS 203: Rethinking Meat: An Introduction to Alternative Proteins (EARTHSYS 109, EARTHSYS 209, ESS 103, ETHICSOC 107)1-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
• ESS 204: Effective Scientific Presentation and Public Speaking (EPS 306, GEOPHYS 205)2-3 units
• ESS 205: Fundamentals of Geobiology (EARTHSYS 205A, EPS 205)3-3 units
• ESS 206: World Food Economy (EARTHSYS 106, EARTHSYS 206, ECON 106, ECON 206, ESS 106, GEP 106, GEP 206)3-5 units
• ESS 220: Physical Hydrogeology (CEE 260A)4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 16 hrs/wk
• ESS 221: Contaminant Hydrogeology and Reactive Transport (CEE 260C)3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ESS 223: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (EARTHSYS 123A, EARTHSYS 223, ESS 123)3-4 units
• ESS 224: Remote Sensing of Hydrology (CEE 260D)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ESS 227: Decision Science for Environmental Threats (EARTHSYS 227)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ESS 234: Climate Displacement, Migration, and Mobility (CSRE 234, EBS 234, HUMRTS 224)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 4 hrs/wk
• ESS 235: Advanced Concepts in Geographic Information Science (EARTHSYS 145, EARTHSYS 245, URBANST 145)3-4 units
• ESS 236: Modeling Human-Environment Systems (ESS 136, GEP 115, GEP 215)3-3 units
• ESS 241: Remote Sensing of the Oceans (EARTHSYS 141, EARTHSYS 241, ESS 141, GEOPHYS 141)3-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ESS 246A: Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: The Atmospheric Circulation (CEE 161I, CEE 261I, EARTHSYS 146A, EARTHSYS 246A)3-3 units · 4.5/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ESS 246B: Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: the Ocean Circulation (CEE 162I, CEE 262I, EARTHSYS 146B)3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ESS 251: Biological Oceanography (EARTHSYS 151, EARTHSYS 251, ESS 151)3-3 units
• ESS 252: Marine Chemistry (EARTHSYS 152, EARTHSYS 252, ESS 152, OCEANS 152, OCEANS 252)3-3 units
• ESS 259: Environmental Microbial Genomics (OCEANS 269)1-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ESS 262: Remote Sensing of Land (EARTHSYS 142, EARTHSYS 242, ESS 162)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ESS 266: Will Technology Save the World?: Environmental Ethics and Techno-Optimism (ESS 166)4-4 units
• ESS 267: Climate Change & Extreme Weather3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ESS 271: Climate Models and Data (ESS 171)3-3 units
• ESS 288: Cloud and Aerosol: From Microphysics to Climate Change (CEE 263E)3-3 units
• ESS 292: Directed Individual Study in Earth System Science1-10 units
• ESS 305: Earth System Perspectives I2-2 units · 4.0/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
• ESS 306: Earth System Perspectives II1-1 units · 4.3/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
• ESS 307: Research Proposal Development and Delivery (EPS 307)2-2 units · 4.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• ESS 308: Carbon Dioxide and Methane Removal, Utilization, and Sequestration (EARTHSYS 308, ENERGY 308, ENVRES 295, ME 308)1-1 units
• ESS 314: Regenerative Coffee: Biochar, Climate, and Health, A Human and Planetary Health Action Lab (ESS 114)3-3 units
• ESS 322B: Seminar in Hydrology1-1 units · 4.5/5 rating · 1 hrs/wk
• ESS 333: Counting Carbon for Climate Action3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ESS 400: Graduate Research1-15 units
• ESS 802: TGR Dissertation

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